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We see the term PIETY often used to refer to those who have attained a high and recognised level of iman and practice in Islam eg Imams, Sheikhs, Scholars. The best example of piety is found in our beloved Prophet Mohammad Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam. What does PIETY mean to each and every one of us? How can we PRACTICE it in our EVERYDAY LIFE?
asked Nov 09 '13 at 02:51 stronghold ♦ 520●5
To be pious is likened to a quest, set forth from Allah, to gain freedom and reality. To know and find piety, you first need to understand the Ego. Ego, is what holds back truth and understanding.
To be pious is then to learn about self restraint, self awareness, human virtues, control and domination of the self, self diagnostics, of diseases of the heart and self. It is about learning from others, mistakes, seeking advice, criticism, and about strengthening and reason.
But piety is not about wisdom, this is another constituent that comes with knowledge, and gaining the understanding. Piety is a form of protection, from the Ego, calamities, and worldly desires. It is likened to a self struggle, Jihad al Akbar, great struggle.
To bring piety into our lives is identifying the Ego, prevention of Ego, (the badness of Ego), gaining self dignity, and strengthening human virtues, meditation,renunciation of bad company, and avoiding potential blunders.
Here is a veiw on The Ego, maybe this can help a person understand himself, then can lead a person, then to find piety,
The scholars of ethics have defined egotism as the mother of corruption (Ummul Fisad), the root of all vices and sins, and in order to attain self-refinement one must seriously struggle against it. Meanwhile, it must be understood that each living existence by nature is an egotist and shows keen interest about his essence, characteristics, actions, effects, and perfection. Therefore, egotism cannot be condemned as something absolutely undesirable, it was pointed out that a human existence consists of two stages and possesses two selves or two mines, i.e. animal-self and human-self. The human-self consists of a Celestial Spirit, (blown by God-Almighty), descended from Heavenly Kingdom to become God's Vicegerent upon earth. From this point of view it belongs to the category of knowledge, life, power, blessing, benevolence, perfection, goodness, and by nature aspires towards these ideals.
Therefore, if a person recognizes himself (the human-self) and discovers the values incorporated therein, considers them as honorable, strives to achieve the nearness of the Fountainhead of Absolute Perfection, which results in his revival of moral decencies, virtues, and goodness.
Considering the above, this type of egotism could not be regarded as undesirable, rather is something The second stage of human existence consists of his animal-self, and in this stage he is like an animal exactly, possessing animalistic desires and passions. Although, in order to remain alive in this world and to sustain a living, a human being is supposed to provide his animalistic means of living up to a moderate limit, and up to this extent there does not exist any prohibition and reproach.
But the most important and determining factor is that whether the body should be ruled by the wisdom and celestial human spirit or by the imperious-self and his animal-self. If wisdom and human-self rule, then the animal-self and his passions are adjusted, optimized, and all of them are mobilized for journeying on the path of exaltedness and perfection leading towards God's Nearness. In this case the human-self which is the same existence attached to God - assumes his authenticity, whereby revival of moral excellence in conduct and God's Nearness become the primary goal, and taking care of one's animalistic requirement will become a secondary aim. Therefore, egotism and love for self not only has not been condemned, on the contrary have been praised. But if the imperious-self and animal-self took over control of bodily affairs, the wisdom and human-self are subdued and become isolated, in which case a man gradually takes distance from God and human values, falling ultimately into deep and dark valleys of ignorance. He forgets his human-self (i.e. humanism) and recognizes in his place his unconscious self (Na-khud) (i.e. animalism). And these are the meanings of egotism which is called as the mother of all evils and is therefore, undesirable. An egotist sees only his own animal-self and nothing else. All his actions, efforts, talks, and character revolves around the axis of satisfying his animalistic passions and desires. He practically considers himself as an animal and does not recognize any goal in life except meeting his animalistic requirements.
In order to accomplish these base animalistic objectives considers himself as independent or renegade and justifies all his actions. His animal-self is the only thing which he considers something sacred and honorable.
He demands every thing for his own sake, even truth and justice, which should back up his animalistic desires, and if they are not on his side, does not need such justice, rather gives himself the right to wage combat against them.
He even interprets and comments religious commands and obligations as he pleases, assigning authenticity to his own opinions and thinking, whereby the religious laws and obligations are supposed to adopt themselves in accordance with his whims and passions.
Since an egotist is deprived of real human dignity, virtues and moral perfection; he keeps himself amused with whimsical, false, and futile affairs such as: seeking false publicity, ambitiousness, covetousness, snobbishness, eating, drinking, sexual pleasures, and remains totally ignorant from God's Remembrance and self-perfection. Because an egotist is infatuated and obedient to his imperious-self, he does not have any other aim except satisfying the demands of his passions in the best possible manner; in order to meet this animalistic objective is not ashamed of performing the most shameful deeds and consider them as justified and permissible.
He wants to accomplish his animalistic goals, and in order to achieve them does not refrain from indulgence in lying, accusing, oppressing, and breech of commitments, deception, treachery, and any other acts of transgression.
Therefore, egotism is the mother of all evils which makes all acts of abjectness justified and permissible, or in other worlds, it can be said that all acts of transgressions in reality are the by-products of egotism which are manifested in different manners at different occasions-. For example, oppression and trampling over the rights of others could not be anything other than self-centeredness.
Likewise, lying, backbiting, ill-speaking, fault-finding, jealousy, and revenge all are the vices of egotism which have been manifested in these manners. It is because of this reason that self-centeredness is called as the root of all transgressions.
Self-centeredness consists of various degrees and stages the highest of them leads to the state of self-adoration a self-worshipping. If this ugly characteristic is not confronted strongly, it gradually becomes so intense whereby the imperious-self becomes an object of worship, whose commands must be obeyed absolutely, and a person becomes submissive to his whims and passions to the extent of adoration.
answered Nov 09 '13 at 06:00 abyadgirl 338●7
Assalamu 'Alalikum sister, your opening paragraph delivers some important messages: Without self reflection and self moderation (self awareness), piety cannot take root; and without taking control of the ego, we succumb to the quest of pleasing ourselves through worldly desires. The information pertaining to ego should make every one of us think about this beast (na khud) that dwells within our very being.
(Nov 09 '13 at 07:08) stronghold ♦
We can really see how it can strip the human of dignity as can be seen throughout the western society and what it accepts as the norm. May Allah Subhanahu Wa Taála bless you for presenting this information for it is knowledge and awareness of self that helps us work on avoiding and 'correcting' our own thinking and behaviours. I have reflected on it. So how can we begin to practice piety in our lives from day to day, including our interactions with people, no matter who we are interacting with? Jazak Allahu Khairan
(Nov 09 '13 at 07:08) stronghold ♦
The ways of becoming pious, is a course of self purification. It is the will to obey all of Allahs commands. It is about the heart in its entirety, as mentioned before, eliminating all the bad characteristics that the Ego brings for. The Quran speaks much about the heart, and this is the fundamental key. I found a sermon of Hamman, characteristics of piety, which shows all the elemenys required, but for our selves, unless we can devote one hundred percent to Allah, every living and breaything moment, then can we achieve pure bliss, Piety. The starting point for any man/ women is to eliminate the bad vices, bad characteristics, to actual assess ourselves.
Here is the sermon of Hamman
In order to appreciate the attributes of piety and to understand its profundities in detail, let us quote here the famous sermon of Hammam from the Nahjul-Balagha explaining the qualities of pious and God-fearing persons. In this sermon the Commander of the Faithful Imam 'Ali (a.s.) has explained what piety really means and what sort of human beings pious people are, describing the graphic details of their ways of living, thinking, praying, and dealing with other men.
Hammam was one of the companions of Imam 'Ali (a.s.), a very pious and God fearing man. He once asked Imam to explain at length the qualities of pious person. He wanted the explanation to be so graphic and so vivid that he could get the picture of a pious man in his mind's eyes. Imam knew that Hammam had a very tender heart and was disinclined to explain piety in the way that Hammam had requested and evading the subject he replied.
"Hammam! Fear God and do good deeds. Remember that God is always a companion of pious and good people! " But Hammam was not satisfied with this reply and wanted to say something more. He pressed so much and others joined him and seconded his request that Imam reluctantly delivered the following sermon. After praising the Lord and praying Him to bless the Holy Prophet (a.s.) Imam thus, continued the sermon as follows:
"When God created mankind He was not in need of their obedience and prayers, neither was He nervous of their disobedience. Because, disobedience or insubordination of men cannot harm Him, similar obedience of obedient people cannot do Him any good. He is beyond the reach of harm and benefit.
After creating man He decided for him the variety of food which his body could absorb and assimilate, and the places which were congenial for him to live and to propagate. Among these human beings excellent are those who are pious and who fear God."
"They possess pre-eminence and excellence because they always speak truthfully, rightly and to the point, their way of living is based upon moderation, and their mode of dealing with other men is founded on their good will, fellow feeling and courtesy towards them. They deny themselves the things prohibited by God. They concentrate their minds upon knowledge of things which will bring them eternal bliss.
They bear hardships and sufferings as happily as they enjoy comforts and pleasures. If God had not fixed the span of life for each one of them, their souls in desire of attaining His Heaven and out of fear of falling into His displeasure, would not have stayed in their bodies for long."
"They have visualized mentally the glory of God in such a way that beyond him nothing in this world alarms, frightens or awes them. Everything other than His might appears to them as insignificant and humble. They believe in the Heaven and its blessings like a person who has been there and has actually seen everything of the Heaven with his own eyes.
Similarly, their faith in the Hell and its torments is as strong as that of a person who had passed through its sufferings. They feel that the tortures of the Hell are around them and very near to them."
"The ways of worldly people make them sorry. They harm nobody. They do not indulge in excessive eating and pleasure seeking. Their wants are limited. Their wishes are few. They have accepted patiently sufferings and adversities in this mortal and transitory life for the sake of eternal bliss which by the grace of God proved for them a very profitable transaction.
The vicious world desired their fellowship but they turned their faces away from it. It wanted to snare them, but they willingly accepted every trouble and discomfort to free themselves from its clutches."
"Their nights they spend in carefully studying the Qur'an, because, of their weaknesses and short-comings, and try to find ways from this Holy book for improvements of their minds. In the study of the Qur'an when they came across a passage describing the Heaven they feel highly attracted towards it and develop such a keen desire to reach it; that the Heaven with all its blessings is visualized by their minds, while a passage about the Hell frightens them and makes them feel as if they are seeing and hearing the raging fire and the groans and lamentations of those who are suffering the tortures of the Hell."
"Nights they spend in praying before the Lord and requesting and beseeching Him to deliver them from the Hell. Days find them occupied with such works that clearly indicate their wisdom, depth of knowledge, virtuousness, and piety. Constant fasting, simple diet: avoidance of every aspect of luxury and regular hard work make them look lean and haggard, but they possess very sound and robust health.
When people hear them discussing various problems of life they often take them to be whimsical fanatic or even half-witted. But it is not so, they are not satisfied with the quality and quantity of the work done by them in the cause of religion and humanity .The more they work the less they feel satisfied. Having set up a very high standard of efficiency for their work they fell nervous that indolence may not make it impossible for them to attain those heights."
"If anyone of them is praised for piety, virtuousness and the good deeds done by him, he does not like to be so complimented; he is afraid that such praise may not allure him towards vanity, self flattery, and self glorification. He says, I know my mind and my work more than others, and God knows much more than me.
O Lord! Please do not hold me responsible for what they have said about me. You know very well that I did not instigate them for such praises. Please Lord! Grant me excellence far greater than what they complimented me for. And Lord! Please forgive those of my sins short-comings which they do not know."
"You will find every pious person possessing the following attributes. He is resolute though tender-hearted and kind. He is unwavering in his convictions and beliefs. He is thirsty for knowledge. He forgives those who harmed him, fully knowing that they have wronged him. Even when owning wealth his ways of life are based upon moderation. His prayers are models of humility and submissiveness to God. Even when starving he will maintain his self-respect. He will bear sufferings patiently."
"He will resort only to honest means of living. Leading others towards truth and justice, will give him pleasure. He disdains avarice and greed. Though he does good deeds all the time, yet he feels nervous of his short-comings. Every night, he thanks God for having passed one more day under His Grace and Mercy.
Every morning finds him starting the day with the prayers of the Lord. Of nights he is cautious that he may not carelessly waste those hours in comfort and ease. He starts his days happy with the thought the Lord has given him another day to do his duty."
"If his mind wishes for something unholy and impious he refuses to obey its dictates. He desires to achieve eternal bliss. Worldly pleasures do not interest him. His wisdom is mixed with patience. His deeds reciprocate his words (he does what he says). Inordinate desires do not trouble him. He has few defects in him. He is courteous to others.
He possesses a contended mind. He eats little, he does not harm anybody. He is easy to be pleased. He is strong in his faith. His passions are dead. His temper is controlled."
"People expect good out of him and consider themselves immune from his harm. Even if he is found among godless people his name will be written in the list of Godly persons. If he is in company of those who always remember God, naturally his name will not be included amongst those who forget Him. He forgives those who harm him. He helps those who have forsaken him and have refused to help him.
He is kind to those who have been cruel to him. He does good to those who do evil to him. He never indulges in loose talks. He has no vice in him, and his good qualities are outstanding, noticeable, and prominent, when facing dangers and disasters he is calm and undisturbed. In sufferings and calamities he is patient and hopeful. In prosperity he is thankful to God. He would not harm his worst enemy. He will never commit a sin even for the sake of his best friend."
"Before anybody has to bear testimony to his fault he accepts and owns it. He never misappropriates anything entrusted to him. He never forgets what he has been told. He does not slander anybody. He does not harm his neighbors.
When misfortunes befall any person he does not blame him, neither is he happy at the losses of others. He neither goes astray from the right path nor follows a wrong one. His silence does not indicate,. his moroseness nor his laughters are loud and boisterous.
He bears persecution patiently and God punishes his oppressor. He is hard to himself and very lenient to others. He bears hardships in this life to attain eternal comfort and peace. He never wrongs a fellow being. If he avoids anybody it is to retain his piety and uprightness. If he forms contract with anybody it is on account of his kindness and clemency.
He does not avoid anybody because of his pride and vanity, and he does not mix with others with ulterior motives of hypocrisy, pretense, and vile."1
"The narrator says that Hammam was hearing the sermon very attentively when Imam reached the above passage, Hammam fainted and died it during the faint. Seeing this Imam said: "By God, I was hesitating to all this to Hammam because of this very reason. Effective advises on minds ready to receive them often bring almost similar result".
Pious is someone who has taqwa. Taqwa is success.
answered Nov 09 '13 at 07:14 Faisal26 234●2●8
Assalamu 'Alalikum brother, Allah tells us clearly what TAQWA is: "It is not taqwa that you turn your faces toward East or West, but it is taqwa to believe in Allah and the Last Day, and the Angels, and the Book and the Messengers, to spend of your substance out of love for Him, for your kin, for orphans, for the needy, for the wayfarer, for those who ask, and for the ransom of slaves; to be steadfast in prayer and practice regular charity; to fulfill the contracts you have made; to be firm and patient, in pain and adversity. Those are the truthful and those are the muttaqun." [Qur'an 2:177]
(Nov 09 '13 at 07:28) stronghold ♦
But I am wondering how we can have this and demonstrate it in our daily lives. May Allah bless you for making this effort and presenting the connection between piety and taqwa.Jazak Allahu Khairan
(Nov 09 '13 at 07:34) stronghold ♦


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Humans are great at recognizing patterns and one of the patterns we do really well with is that of cause-and-effect. We like to know what causes what – and particularly what causes bad things to happen. So when something bad – like cancer – happens we want to find a cause; and we also want to know what causes cancer so that we can avoid getting it. We would like to believe that our bodies and our health are deterministic – that we can predict what will happen if only we can know enough. The problem is that this just isn't the case and there are some fundamental limits of what we can know and of what we can predict. Or, to put it another way, people with the healthiest genes and lifestyles still come down with cancer, just as there are healthy octogenarians who smoke, drink, and eat fatty foods. Here's why.
Physicists used to think that the entire universe was deterministic – that if we had enough information about every particle in the universe (position, velocity, mass, etc.) and the fundamental laws governing their motions and interactions then we could predict everything there was to know about the universe for all of time. On the surface this seems to make sense – after all, if we know we have perfect and precise knowledge of every aspect of, say, the balls on a pool table and if we have perfect knowledge of how we strike the cue ball then we should be able to predict exactly where every ball on the table will end up. If we consider all of the particles in the universe – every atom, every electron, every proton, and so forth – and if we know how each of these particles interact with each other then shouldn't we be able to view the universe as the pool table writ large? Shouldn't a big enough computer be able to calculate the future and fate of the universe?
Ideally yes – but…there are inevitable uncertainties that complicate matters. The universe is, at the most fundamental level, random, and this randomness creeps in everywhere.
Part of it is that we cannot know everything there is to know about a particle – this is the premise of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. German Nobel laureate Werner Heisenberg realized that the very act of observing a particle changes it and he determined that the more precisely we know, say, a particle's position the less precisely we can know it's exact velocity (velocity is the particle's speed and direction). So the first thing we need in order to have a deterministic universe – exact knowledge of every particle in the universe – is impossible to achieve. The deterministic universe doesn't even get out of the starting blocks.
But the universe is even more random than that. Consider radioactive decay – my specialty. We can't look at a single atom and know exactly when it will decay. We can look at a collection of atoms and predict how many will decay in a given amount of time, but the exact fate of any single atom is a mystery to us. And there are more examples – but this ought to suffice.
So what's this got to do with radiation exposure and cancer? Funny you should ask….
It's tempting to think of our bodies as the equivalent of the deterministic universe – that if we can have perfect knowledge of every molecule in our bodies and the rules behind how our cells operate then we can predict what will happen when we expose our bodies to potential harm. For example, if we know the precise path of a gamma ray through a body then we should be able to calculate exactly which cells it will pass through, exactly which chromosomes it will hit, exactly what genes will be damaged, and whether or not that damage will turn the cell cancerous. But we can't do this either because of the fundamental physics mentioned earlier. We might know the precise path of a gamma ray, but we can only predict the probability that it will interact with any molecule (DNA or otherwise) with which it interacts in its passage through the body. Similarly, our bodies respond to DNA damage, but this is also probabilistic. So we can't predict whether or not any particular gene will be damaged and, if so, we can't predict with certainty whether or not the damage will be properly repaired. Radiation as a cause for cancer is fundamentally stochastic – random in nature – and we can only determine probabilities.
This was a point made by another Nobelist – physicist Erwin Schrödinger, in his landmark essay What is Life? As early as 1944 Schrödinger pointed out genetic information is transmitted by molecules, that molecules are made of atoms, and that the behavior of atoms is probabilistic. Given this, he pointed out that slight changes in all molecules – including the molecules that carry genetic information (they didn't know that this was DNA at that time) – are inevitable and he proposed this as a mechanism for evolution. Schroedinger had made an inspired guess and, by so doing, he inspired the scientists who went on to become the first molecular biologists. And – again – he stressed the fundamental randomness of our genetics and our biology.
If we think about it this makes sense. Moving beyond the molecular level humans are tremendously complex and we react differently to just about everything. Expose two of us to the same pathogens and one will get sick while the other doesn't. Expose one person to the same pathogen on two different days and we'll see the same result. Some of us are lactose intolerant, some develop lactose intolerance later in life, and some happily chug milk for decades. So given all of this, what can we hope to figure out?
One thing we can do is to constrain the problem. With radiation, for example, I can tell you that the effects of a single x-ray will almost certainly be stochastic – it might (or might not) increase the risk of cancer, but it won't cause skin burns. At the other extreme, the effects of a very high dose are entirely deterministic – expose a person to 1000 rem in one shot and they will certainly die of radiation sickness. So the response to radiation exposure transitions from purely stochastic to purely deterministic as dose increases from 0 – 1000 rem (but the deterministic part of this is death by radiation sickness, not by cancer).
So what does this all mean for us?
Well, first of all it means that a person with cancer can't say exactly what caused it. We might calculate that there was a 95% probability that a particular cancer was caused by radiation exposure, but there's still a 5% chance that the person would have got cancer anyhow from a random genetic flaw. Similarly, we can calculate that the risk of cancer from a low dose of radiation might be only a few percent, but it's still not zero.
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This place is amazing. I drive all the way from San Antonio to eat here. Chau (I think that's how you spell his name) is the best waiter. Best shrimp fried rice I've ever had. Great service.
Awesome Froglegs!!!!!!!!!!!! – My husband says he never had any better. They are so tender and juicy. The pepper sauce is the best and makes these froglegs the best anywhere. He has had them from So. Padre to Nebraska. Now, let me tell you about their special sweet/sour or duck sauce. I could slather it all over everything. The appetizer fried scallops are FANTASTIC.
This place beats all the others, hands down!!!!!!
Best Chinese for Years – My family has been going to Taiwan for years and we have the best food and service everytime. This seems like the impossible, but it's true! We love going there for lunch. A pack of us can eat for next to nothing and we are in and out like it was a table for two. The dinner portions are HUGE. Thanks to May and all the rest for filling our tummies with the best in town for so many years! You must try this place!
Best Beef with Broccoli I've ever had. – I was on my way home and stopped in for a late dinner. I'd never tried this place before. I ordered the beef with broccoli. The service was quick and attentive. The sauce on the beef with broccoli was the best I have ever had (and I've had plenty). It had very good flavor without tasting too salty. The broccoli was very fresh and cooked to tender crisp. The portions were so big, you need a doggy bag. I had a great lunch the next day too. I will definately be back.
amazing!!! – we tried this restaurant becoz we needed some good place to eat in Austin badly!!and we were lucky to find this place.lunch specials are gr8.but we like to go there gor dinner.........gaint portions for the value u pay!!mouth watering taste......we loved the jalapeno chicken and hot and spicy chicken so much tht everytime we go there u have to tk one of these dishes!!!we r definitely goin there again and again and again....and we'll try there whole menu!!!highly recommended to all the ppl who want to eat good food!!
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Ice marbles!? Yes! I am doing that straightaway the next time we get a big snow! The snow graffiti is another nice one. I wonder if spray paint chalk would work just as well?
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Those ice marbles are the only reason I'm sad I don't live in the snow anymore. Love them!
Not sure if yellow snow is the best idea but I love the rest. The ice marbles would probably look great at night near a light source (that's not too much of a heat source).
Did anyone else notice on the marshmallow site the idea for "Peep S'mores"? Genius! Yet another way to gleefully squash a Peep - and enjoy rainbow colored S'mores.
Nope. Didn't click the link til you mentioned. it. Love it, how much fun are colorful s'mores? Thanks for the heads up, otherwise I'd a missed that one. Chuckling at gleefully squashing a peep.
And the ice marbles are WAY.TOO.MUCH.FUN.
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This is a young Dane Reynolds in his bathroom at his mom's house, I think in '99. I went to a C.I. (Channel Islands) shoot for C.I. surfboards and we wanted to shoot him with all his boards. So we threw all his boards in his bathroom and had him brush his teeth. No one has photos of Dane this young, you know. I love the Reef sponsor. To this day Dane trips out on me and says, "You are so weird, Sherm. You have plastic cameras and you do weird shit." But now he gets it. Dane is one of my favorite surfers. There is no one like Dane and I love hanging with him. But as a surfer, he moves me.
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Dane would still have those sponsors today, but the "team managers" at the time were complete idiots.
money, contradiction, marketing, cover ups, little bucks, big bucks, bad parents, sincere parents, respect, growing up, laughter, getting old, politics, finance, socioeconomic stratification, who we are, who we appear to be, self control, personal aspirations, discipline, human spirit, ologies, fun, subordinates, perceived superiority, true love, dental hygiene(or not), photographic representation and money.
yep, you have no idea what you are talking about do you? if you did you would not say something so stupid.
Hey, why not pick on me? I get no attention and could very well have no idea what I'm talking about!
sherm, you have an ego? no, me thinks you have a super-ego.
quit parading these one picture captioned nonsense…blah blah blah .. here's young jar jar binks learning how to draw his light saber…. he wasn't friends with luke skywalker yet, but you could tell by the hair on his face that he would one day make history.. .
dude, this is all fantasy.
Go cover Syria, Sherm. You might learn something by covering something that actually matters.
Really good photojournalism in surfing – oxymoronic as it is – is rare but Steve Sherman is the best at it and on the the most consistent basis in his peer group which is pretty all the A-listers.
This overly set-up shot from his early days aside, Steve has nailed some of our sports photojournalistic gems and the proof is in his years of photography.
He passion is surfing so he has elected to photograph his passion and I don't think he's in pursuit of a Pulitzer.
No where does it say you have to imbed your self with the 10′th Mountain Division over seas to validate that your a photojournalist or have your photography "matter" or use that as an excuse to slag his work off.
That is one fucked-up statement to make.
What matter is if the shot moves you vicariously in some way which Steve has done for a very large audience for a very long time.
Don't let the pork-pie hat / So-Cali cool appearances and tat's fool you, this guy is very good at what he does, and, on many occasions great, and what he photographs.
And that is all that matters in the end.
Not sure what rock you crawled out from under. You stated nothing in a bunch of mixed up nonsense above. Thanks for your contribution; I learned nothing. You have ZERO evidence to back up your claim that his photojournalism ranks high. What credits? What accolades?
Now, get back under the rock Gollum. Your precious is no where to be found.
Your welcome!
Stupid picture with a bunch of shit boards in a bathroom, just where they belong… down the toilet, I'm surprised Dane let them do this, but then again he was just a kid being puppetted along for the corpo farks to capitalize……


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Donation requests are an interesting beast within the rental industry. The general public views the equipment that we have as something that is sitting around and it would be easy for us to just let them use it. The donation requests seem to come in waves
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From there, we put together a donation request form that we would make available on our website and in print, so that our showroom staff members could give it to people. There are thousands of examples on the Internet and we simply cut and pasted from a few. On the form, we made sure that all of the vital information was asked, including contact name, organization, date, location and items requested. We ask all that request a donation to complete our form.
This time of the year, with back to school, it seems as if organizations and schools are coming out of the woodwork to ask for donations. During one week in August, we received seven requests — that's more than one per business day.
We had to set a few internal rules on these requests, so we enlisted our staff members to help with those rules. As a group, we decided to not donate labor — setup and teardown of items — or delivery and pickup of items, and that we would request recognition for our donation. To eliminate last-minute requests, we also put a timeframe that the request must be made at least 28 days prior to the event to receive consideration.
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We make sure that those organizations that we cannot help this year know that their request was carefully considered, but that the requests we receive each year for assistance far exceed our funding capabilities. We have found that sharing with organizations the fact that we have an actual budget to work from is something that they can understand and appreciate.
We also have evolved over the last couple of years with our granting of donations. We no longer donate 100 percent of what is requested by an organization. We have found that generally speaking, most of those that are doing the asking are very happy with a percentage off instead of all items being donated. We approach this in the manner that we can cover more organizations and causes with the same amount of donation budget.
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The fact that he couldn't stay eligible during his freshman season (which means he was taking 100 level classes) & screwed his team by becoming ineligible for the NCAA's shoulda been a HUGE red flag for teams when drafting him. Size does not equate to talent.
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The Grizzlies announced Friday the release of center Fab Melo, a move that comes a little more than two weeks after Memphis acquired the 2012 first-round pick from Boston in exchange for forward Donte Greene and cash considerations. Yahoo! Sports first reported Melo's release.
Melo, 23, averaged 1.2 points and 0.5 rebounds in only six games for the Celtics last season. The No. 22 pick in the 2012 draft out of Syracuse, Melo spent most of last season with Boston's D-League affiliate, the Maine Red Claws. There, he averaged 9.8 points, 6.0 rebounds and 3.1 blocks.
With a stacked big man rotation that includes Marc Gasol, Zach Randolph, Kosta Koufos and Ed Davis, Memphis was in a position to handle Melo like the project that he is or simply cut-and-run from a player who has had his commitment and maturity questioned. The Grizzlies have taken the latter route, perhaps hoping that a rebuilding team will claim Melo off of waivers, thus saving Memphis the cost of his $1.3 million contract for the 2013-14 season. Whether or not such a claim is made, the Grizzlies currently sit below the NBA's $71.7 million luxury tax line.
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is very useful for calculating sums.
That's because:
If you want to calculate this:
, you may express the f(x) = x^i as:
where r(x) is the "remainder", which has less power than f(x).
Example for f(x)=x^1:
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(S_2 (x))/2=x+1/2
f(x)=x^1=x=0.5 S_2(x) - 0.5 = 0.5(S_2(x)-1).
There's also and binomial proof, which is more usable and universal, but it's harder too.
Thank you for the link. The link finally reminded me of the proof i once read in Thomas' Calculus book, it uses a neighbor elimation trick:
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I don't see why you don't want it to be using induction, but whatever. I remember that question being asked here before, so there'll be a topic here somewhere with a proof. I remember that it has an induction proof and a different proof as well, so you get two answers!
the answer seems too odd for me -n(n+1)(2n+1)/6, and what mathematical induction can do is just to prove other than to derive. Hoping some genius could handle this out, with ease and simplisity, like the derivation of 1+a+a²+a³+...+an


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